Describe the Balanced Scorecard model of performance management. Identify its strengths and weaknesses. Explain whether this model can be adopted by your organisation (why or why not?)

Project information and requirements: • Complete an ANNOTATED bibliography in APA format (12 pt. Times New Roman, double-spaced, 1-inch margins). • Address the following assignment requirements. o Summarize and evaluate a minimum of 4 (four) peer-reviewed journal articles published within the past 5 years that address current research topics in public health. o Each annotation must be a minimum of 250 words and include the following: ▪ Summary of the resource content ▪ Evaluation of resource utility ▪ Assessment of resource credibility and reliability o Paraphrase information to demonstrate your own understanding of the topic in the context of public health research.

peripheral vascular disease

1. Identify the most important client concerns for this condition.
2. Discuss three priorities for nursing care of this client, with these client concerns in mind.
   1. Explain how you arrived at the order of importance (Nursing Process, Maslow’s Hierarchy, ABCs, etc.)
3. Use the CINAHL search system to find an article from a peer-reviewed journal published in the last 5 that supports the priorities of nursing care you identified.   

Name two emergencies that you may need to know how to initiate the emergency protocol.

Harry, an 8-month old infant, is seen by the pediatric nurse practitioner for his well-child visit. Harry’s mother states that he usually has one hard stool every 4 or 5 days, which causes discomfort when the stool is passed. He has also had one episode of diarrhea and two episodes of ribbon-like stools. Abdominal distention and vomiting have not accompanied the constipations, and Harry’s growth has been normal. Currently, his diet consists of cow’s milk-based formula only. Harry’s mother reports that the infrequent passage of hard stool began approximately 6 weeks ago when she stopped breastfeeding. Which interventions should the nurse practitioner include in the initial management of Harry’s problem?

1. What interventions should the nurse practitioner implement at this time?

2. Does the evidence support these interventions?

What are the recommended retention periods for the master patient index, adult health records, minor health records, and register of deaths? Why do you think AHIMA established these recommended retention periods?

Elaborate by providing a supporting comment connecting nursing to ethics in relationship to the statement that the nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient.

Discuss current issues in healthcare human resources from a global perspective, countries such as the USA, Canada and Germany just to name a few. Select 2 countries and compare the current state of healthcare human resources for each you have selected. Your response should be 1 - 2 pages.

1. Are the styles of servant leadership, transformational leadership, and contingency leadership beneficial to a healthcare organization?

Identify technical and clinical factors that limit the application of data-mining tools in the EHR.

Project Paper:

Subject: Descriptive Epidemiology of a Selected Health Problem (10 pages, single spaced)

Select one health problem from those listed below to explore in detail by using a descriptive epidemiologic approach.

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS

Anthrax

Escherichia coli (EHEC) Infection

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis B

Lyme disease

Malaria

Rabies

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

Smallpox

Syphilis

Yellow fever

Any other

How you should organize the paper:

1. Define the problem (nature, extent, significance, etc)
2. Describe the agent.
3. Describe the condition briefly.
4. Examine the above sources for data on morbidity and mortality for the selected problem.
5. Summarize these data on the distribution of the selected health problem according to the following factors, using tables, graphs, or other illustrations whenever possible:

1. Host characteristics
   1. Age
   2. Sex
   3. Nativity
   4. Marital status
   5. Ethnic group
2. Environmental attributes
   1. Geographic areas
   2. Social and economic factors
      1. Income
      2. Housing
   3. Occupation
   4. Education
3. Temporal variation
   1. Secular
   2. Cyclic
   3. Seasonal
   4. Epidemic
4. Any additional characteristic that contributes to an epidemiologic description of the disease

6. Summarize any current hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the observed distribution.
7. List the principal gaps in knowledge about the distribution of the health problem.
8. Suggest areas for further epidemiologic research.
9. Critically appraise the data as a whole, consult primary sources and important original papers.